UKRAINIAN CARDINAL ASSAILS THE VATICAN

ROME, Feb. 19 (UPI)—,Tosyf Cardinal Slipyi, the exiled head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, has accused the Vatican of making him suffer more than he did under Soviet imprisonment.

Cardinal Slipyi turned SO two days ago, which left him without effective voice in the College of Cardinals or in the central government of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Paul VI ruled 14 months ago that Cardinals must retire from all activities when they reach 90.

During a mass concelebrated with other Ukrainian prelates, Cardinal Slipyi alluded to his 18 years of Soviet imprisonment and said: “Some of the sufferings that I have had to undergo since my liberation and during the period of my so‐called liberty have been harder to take than those of my imprisonment or even of the time when I was condemned to death.”

The cardinal has led a fight to get the Vatican to recognize the Ukrainian Church as a patriarchate with its own autonomous government. The Ukrainians have their own rite and traditions but are subjected to the strict control of the Vatican Congregation for Eastern Religions.

Last October, during the international Synod n Bishops. Cardinal Slipyi accused the Vatican of selling out the Ukrainian Church for the sake of a diplomatic agreement with the Soviet Union.

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